Book review: Warped Passages
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
Randall is a Harvard professor of physics who provides a non-mathematical review of why space may have more than the 3 spatial dimensions and the 1 temporal dimension we are familiar with. The short answer is that experiments bashing particles into each other show very strange results, which make better sense if certain attributes of those particles and the forces that interact with them operate in dimensions beyond the ones we’re directly aware of. Like other books of its type, such as Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, and Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe, this book recaps a bunch of physics you may already know to get to the strangeness that you probably won’t understand* even after you’ve read it three times. Still, I liked it.
* If you do understand it, please drop me an email.
